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Hey guys,
I'm just sittin here at work resenting the fact that I have to be here today.. and thinkin about how I'm probably gonna have to spend a large part of my life i this exact circumstance... sittin at a desk in front of a computer.
My job isnt important.. it doesnt change anyone's lives it just makes my boss money.. what a great reason to get outta bet in the morning. I wanna be out tryin new things and meetin new ppl!!
I gotta find some way outta this, its ok for now but im not doing it my whole life.
What do u guys think, u ever feel like this?
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Vatican City State593 Posts
no and now get me a coffee, please.
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The only person i get coffee for is myself.
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What's keeping you there?
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If history has taught us anything, ambition and drive go a long way. I have neither so i choose contentment instead 
Seriously though, learn 20 languages, become a consultant for a huge company, travel/meet new people/and try new things when your abroad. All you have to do is spent hours upon hours learning langauges for the rest of your life =D
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Its a co-op job
which means i got it through school and its kinda part of me gettin my degree (in business)
Its an 8 month workterm so i'm outta here in april..
the office environment isnt that bad relative to other places ive worked..
theres just no purpose to it.. so i dont have much motivation
but like i said before its ok for now, just dont wanna spend my lifetime like this.
on a side note its kinda funny the way our economy is organized,
the world is easily rich enough to feed clothe and house everyone, and ppl dont really need to work so much, but everything is always centered around economic growth, and not people's happiness. Wheres our national happiness minister??
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On November 30 2004 11:09 SW)RIF wrote:If history has taught us anything, ambition and drive go a long way. I have neither so i choose contentment instead Seriously though, learn 20 languages, become a consultant for a huge company, travel/meet new people/and try new things when your abroad. All you have to do is spent hours upon hours learning langauges for the rest of your life =D
ya that would probably be pretty cool i'd love to travel alot especially while im still young.
i was thinkin after i graduate mebbe ill go build schools in a third world country or somehting along those lines. for a year or so anyway.
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Norway28700 Posts
hm
yeah
I am currently working in a job where I don't really do much worthwhile, basically in norway we have this mandatory army thing which sucks, however you can easily get out of it through claiming you're a pacifist. however then you're forced to do some kind of other work instead.
and then I applied for a job at my former highschool, a place which I absolutely looooooooooooved, so now I'm working there as an "assistant"
so far I've spent most of my time in a library browsing and reading comic books, eventually I will swap those with real books (reading is something I intend on doing a lot of this year)
so I mean, I'm having a good time. the students are quite a lot of fun, and the teachers are cooler than at any other school in the UNIVERSE. but it's not really "worthwhile", nor challenging.
not to mention that I absolutely fucking hate oh my god jesus christ it sucks so hard ghdfafhasbfgvuyasbgvdfsugbds WAKING UP
WHY DOES WORK START BEFORE NOON? WHAT
KIND
OF
FUCKING RETARD
DECIDED THAT WORK SHOULD START AT 8:30?
EIGHT THIRTY AM
and thats not even considered early
so I wonder what the fuck kind of job I'm going to have which will allow me to go to bed at 8:30 instead, like I'm supposed to.
so yeah
I'm overall having a good time. but not doing anything at all was better, even though most people I talk to felt that not doing anything became boring after a couple of months, I'm not like that at all.
might be related to summer/winter too though. the trondheimian summer is perfect. never dark, going out and playing football at 2-4 am
not TOO hot, but walking around in shorts is comfortable, and occasionally it gets quite warm.
etc
its soo good.
however winter is the complete opposite.
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Man, I don't care what you're doing, it's better than 8-7 washing car windows, and vacuuming them. My job sucks so much. Thank GOD I got it down to two weekdays. I need a different job. TT; (It's at an oil change place, if anyone was really curious)
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eri have i mentioned lately u are beautiful?
on the inside AND out ~!11
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wow u guys have 24 hr sun??
crazy..
ya i feel the same way, its just getting dark enough here that i go to work just as its getting light and leave just after it gets dark. DEPRESSING
and ya not working doesnt necessarily mean ur not doing anything.. it just means ur free to do what u want
If i could only work maybe 5 or 6 hours a day so id have time for other things than work/gym/sleep/eat then it be alot less frustrating
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On November 30 2004 11:33 SickofLife wrote:
Man, I don't care what you're doing, it's better than 8-7 washing car windows, and vacuuming them. My job sucks so much. Thank GOD I got it down to two weekdays. I need a different job. TT; (It's at an oil change place, if anyone was really curious)
oh buddy i know ive got it pretty good in relative terms.
I used to work at a factory that made conveying systems (kinda ironic, and no we didnt use conveyer belts to make them)
anyway they put me in the back on a metal grinder for 2 straight weeks!! i didnt move all day, i just stood in 1 spot, grabbed a piece of metal from a pile on my right, smoothed out the edges and put it in a pile on my left.
then the price of metal went up and i got laid off :D!!
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do something you love. meaning, do something you wouldn't mind doing as the dominant thing in your life. if it's slacking off and having fun or working hard at something, you'll know if you're happy or not. so my advice: quit that job and try something else. you only live once.
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On November 30 2004 11:47 shizuru wrote:
do something you love. meaning, do something you wouldn't mind doing as the dominant thing in your life. if it's slacking off and having fun or working hard at something, you'll know if you're happy or not. so my advice: quit that job and try something else. you only live once.
what do u do?
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On November 30 2004 11:49 SCFraser wrote:Show nested quote +On November 30 2004 11:47 shizuru wrote:
do something you love. meaning, do something you wouldn't mind doing as the dominant thing in your life. if it's slacking off and having fun or working hard at something, you'll know if you're happy or not. so my advice: quit that job and try something else. you only live once. what do u do?
He's a bum who's probably never had a job, and doesn't know that work is never enjoyable, because it's work. You don't have to hate it, but you'll never enjoy it. Once you have to do something every day for eight hours straight, you aren't having fun with it anymore, because you can't just stop, and do something else, you have to keep doing your job, because that's what gets you money. Even games get boring when you're forced to play them. Never take up a hobby as a full-time job, that'd be my advice. (This is directed at no one in particular)
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7-4 at an industry is far worse. Just find something that makes your earned money and free time worth it.
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smile guys :D tomorrow could be worse 
you could be living in another country *cough*cough*cough
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Braavos36379 Posts
that's really the problem with the business track... you make lots of money and are secure, but really it's quite boring and you're locked into the same job for quite some time. i know lots of my friends in finance intend to work in banks for a little (for money) then later go to grad school and either become lawyers or professors. that usually works out well.
frankly, i think most people with econ and finance majors at my school are immediately working 9-5's with relatively low happiness and low movement. i had a choice between business undergrad and liberal arts, and trust me right now i'm gearing up for law school, because there's almost no shot for me to get a good job with only a liberal arts degree. your situation isn't as bad as you think--searching job listings and doing temp jobs is worse.
if you're willing to take a huge pay cut you could quit and go for something you like. that's a big risk though, if i was in your situation i probably wouldn't have the balls to do it.
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On November 30 2004 12:05 SickofLife wrote:
He's a bum who's probably never had a job, and doesn't know that work is never enjoyable, because it's work. You don't have to hate it, but you'll never enjoy it. Once you have to do something every day for eight hours straight, you aren't having fun with it anymore, because you can't just stop, and do something else, you have to keep doing your job, because that's what gets you money. Even games get boring when you're forced to play them. Never take up a hobby as a full-time job, that'd be my advice. (This is directed at no one in particular)
That's flat-out wrong.
If you become a lawyer instead of an artist just because it pays better, yeah, your life will suck. But it'll be your own fault; just because the economic system places higher value on some jobs than others doesn't mean you can't pick one that pays less well anyway in exchange for actually enjoying what you do. A lot of teachers do this.
In a lot of ways, taking the high-paying job over the one you'd genuinely enjoy is the coward's way.
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if i could be sitting in front of a computer at work, i wouldnt be bitching. well thats because i love computers. but then again if i could get paid while posting on TLNet, then i sure as hell wouldnt be complaining
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